All Hail West Texas

	Track	Duration	Listeners
1	The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton	2:36	43,682
2	Fall of the Star High School Running Back	1:49	32,245
3	Color in Your Cheeks	2:40	36,730
4	Jenny	2:51	38,834
5	Fault Lines	2:38	30,254
6	Balance	2:02	29,863
7	Pink and Blue	2:29	29,819
8	Riches and Wonders	3:57	22,337
9	The Mess Inside	3:35	28,639
10	Jeff Davis County Blues	3:14	23,907
11	Distant Stations	3:04	23,623
12	Blues in Dallas	4:15	22,800
13	Source Decay	3:47	21,382
14	Absolute Lithops Effect	3:08	22,100

About this album

All Hail West Texas is an album by The Mountain Goats. After the slight increase in production values on 2000’s The Coroner’s Gambit, All Hail West Texas is the last Mountain Goats album on which all the songs were recorded on John Darnielle’s trademark Panasonic RX-FT500 boombox.

The album is loosely a concept album, with the cover stating that the album consists of “fourteen songs about seven people, two houses, a motorcycle, and a locked treatment facility for adolescent boys”. Many of the songs explicitly reference places in Texas, and evoke a lifestyle ethos born of the vast expanses of desert and highway found in West Texas itself.

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TheHochhaus wrote:
14 days ago

amazing

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louman wrote:
last month

this album made me change my mind about lo-fi

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zielpiraat wrote:
August 2009

fuck. i was trying to avoid adding half of the songs on this album to my loved tracks but i finally gave in. this album is incredible.

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Yunckzilla wrote:
July 2009

one of the most incredible albums I've ever heard in my life. everything that makes the mountain goats brilliant is distilled into this album.

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Monker001 wrote:
April 2009

Outrageously brilliant.

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scotthome wrote:
September 2008

How did I miss this album!?...I'm stunned at how good it is

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IamFlood wrote:
September 2008

Sounfs fruffy and i like it

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nicoinfurs wrote:
July 2008

man this album owns the shit out of every lo-fi record ever made next to jeff mangum

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ADivineUnicorn wrote:
May 2008

musical perfection.

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like_a_spatula wrote:
April 2008

Normally I find this album too miserable to enjoy all the way through, but about now it sounds wonderful.

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erikdardan wrote:
March 2008

The fact that he went BACK to lo-fi even after he was big enough to command all the fancy equipment makes me respect JD even more.

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steevven1 wrote:
June 2006

AMAZING ALBUM.

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